Christmas Countdown

tirsdag 30. juli 2013

I´ve kind of missed my Magnolias a little lately, so I found I had to colour one of the little cuties, and make something nice of it. I love christmas and I love chocolate, a perfect combination for me (lol), so I made a little chocolate box.

I may have gone a little wild in glitter, but I think it´s so nice when it´s sparkling. All trees, snowflakes, the fence and the poinsettia are well glittered :) In the middle of the snowflakes I put a little rhinestone too, for even more sparkle…
It does´t show well here, but around the image I used the chunky white embossing enamel (from Stampendous). I think I´ve said it before; I love the effect of this embossing stuff!
The image is attached with 3D-foamtape, to give a little space behind, where I put a "tag" with a christmas sentiment on. The "Tag" is actually a doily made with a Magnolia die. On the back it has a stamped snowflake (picture further down).

Here´s more pictures of the box, mainly showing the "tag" in different positions...

mandag 29. juli 2013

I have got a new scraproom, quite a bit bigger than my old one. I haven´t got everything in place and the way I want it to be, but already I like it A LOT!

And I´ve got a Mac. I do NOT like this machine at all!!! I liked my old PC, with programmes that I knew how to use, and where to find… Sometimes this thing makes me so angry I just have to leave the room. Just finding the pictures for this post took me ages! But I will learn how to use it - eventually…

Well, over to something a little bit nicer:

I have made a little giftset with a chocolatecard, a teabox, a matchbox and two decorated tealigts. Oh, and a little shakerboxtag to put on the gift after it´s wrapped in cellophane.

What inspired me to make this giftset was Sketchy Colors summerchallenge. They want us to use the colours Brown, Green, Lilac and White and have a wonderful sketch to follow too. I used the sketch for the chocolatecard, and used the 4 colours for all pieces of the set.

Inside the shakerbox I used one of the lovely My Besties images. It´s coloured with ProMarkers - yes, a little fiddly as it´s printed quite small, but I made it :)

Together with the papers I've used a grey, a white and a white bling cardstock from Bazzill.

I inked the edges with a silvercoloured inkpad. On the back I used silverembossing on the weddingringsimage (Papirdesign)

Inside the card I stamped a romantic little poem:

Here's the back, with the silverembossed image:

The next picture shows the card lying flat, to better show the beautiful ribbon with the text "Bryllup" ("Wedding"). Together with the picture I let the bow be the focalpoint of the card, I felt it didn't need much more embellishments - well, of course I had to put on a few pearls. It is for a wedding, after all!

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søndag 21. juli 2013

Good morning everyone
Looking throught my blogs postinglist I found this weddingcard I almost forgot to show!

I made it some time ago, after a tutorial in Ett Trykk. I think it's kind of fun, with all the pockets for tags and small cards.
I haven't used any coloured images or photos on this card, only stamped texts.
Some of the greetings/ sentiments are embossed with goldcoloured embossingpowder.
The folding gives you one quite large pocket, with room for a larger tag/ card, on this I have stamped a cute, little poem:

I decorated the front and back of the tag with the same papers and panels:

On the frontside of the card there's two more pockets.
I've put two tags in one of the pockets, and a sentiment mounted on magnetic paper in the other pocket:

Here I've put the magnet on the fridgedoor:

This is how the back of the card looks like ( I love using this stamp on the back of my weddingcards):

onsdag 17. juli 2013

I think I now can show you the christmascard I made with one of the new My Besties-images.

Isn't she just l o v e l y ! ! !

Sherri has made so many beautiful images for us to play with, this is only one of them. You can find many, many more here

I love the snowmangarland she's holding - that's why I put on the snowmancharm ;)

I also think that thick embossingenamel sort of looks like snow here. I sprinkled in some silverembossingpowder between the chunky white embossing, to make it a little more sparkly.
Of course I had to put on some glitter on her clothing as well...
You'll find a full colour- and materiallist further down in the post.

Next; a couple of photos showing the card opened and the inside of it:

onsdag 10. juli 2013

I may have gone a bit wild decorating it.
I put together lots of roses, to make a kind of garland. It was real fun, and I think it looks quite nice.
Of course I had to put glitter on the roses!
Glitter is nice!
The charm attached to the bow has a painted rose on - but of course it turned around as I took the picture!
Below you can find a complete list of materials and colours used on this card, and more pictures, showing more of it.

mandag 8. juli 2013

Hi again
I promise this will be my last posting today. I hope I haven't bored you too much with my cards today.
It happens every now and then that "my" challengeblogs start challenges the same day. I hope you can bear with me the mondays it happens.
Finally I can show you the card I made for theBirthday or Wedding Theme
atFashionista Challenge

We're now into the last week to enter the challenge, so if you haven't joined us already, you still have a few days to make your card and join in.
One of our sponsors this month is Milk and Coffee

I chose to make a birthdaycard with this lovely image from them.
It's called "Lisbeth and Balloon" - funny ;)
You can find it in their etsy shop
I put together lots of layers in most pink and blue and a little yellow.
Around the image I embossed with a chunky embossingenamel.
The paperedges are all inked with DistressInk WalnutStain.
The balloons are glittered.
On the tip of each pennant I've put on a little blingstone.
I used the same kind of bling around the image and on the punched border (Martha Stewart) inside the card.
Then a few ribbons and bows and I have a birthdaycard for a little girl.

I struggled a bit with this one, but all of the time I spent thinking about what to make, the bookcard was in the back of my mind. So finally I decided to go for it.

And here it is:

Image and papers are from OLL, apart from the black paper I used I used as bookcover.
That's a really O L D paper. I have no idea where I got it from, but I think the embossed roses on it fitted this project perfect.

To decorate the book I used lots of roses (ivorycoloured), leaves, seambindingribbon, halfpearls, a black labelholder, heartcharm, pearlpin (I made it myself :) ), lace (inside), a Spellbinders-diecut corner.
The paperedges are inked with DistressInk BlackSoot.
The little greeting in the labelholder is stamped with a stamp from Kort & Godt.

Inside the "book" I had to use a little colours.

(I tried using black papers, but found it too gloomy. Ivory papers gave it too much of a "weddinglook")

I decided to make use of them.
The image i have used is Img 697 May Blossom
You can find this, and many, many other here.
I coloured the image with ProMarkers - most every yellotoned marker I own, and finally put on a little glitterstickles on the flowers on her clothes.
I used the same glitterstickles on the butterflies.
Around the image I used the chunky, white embossingenamel from Stampendous, and some tiny LiquidPearls from Ranger.
The swirldie underneath the big, yellow flowers is from My favorite Thing, the tagdie is from Magnolia.
On the tags I stamped cute little greetings from Papirdesign.

Here's the inside of the card. I kept the butterflytheme here...

The next picture shows the back of the card too. Here I've used the same papers as on the front, and a couple of butterflies.

lørdag 6. juli 2013

Good morning friends
It looks like it can be a good weekend for cardmaking (apart from a few hours at work today and Sunday...), outside it's windy, cloudy and rainy - not much of a summerweather...

I'll show you one of the cards I made the last week.
It's a birthdaycard- in a kind of shabby/ vintage, and almost clean and simple style, with one of Sherri Baldys My Besties-images.
I think they're sooo cute!
(You can find them here, if you like them too).
The image, Img826, is coloured with Pro- and FlexMarkers. I "dressed" her in colours to match the flowers...
DPs are from Maja Design.

The inside. On the left I stamped a birthdaygreeting (North Star Stamps). On the right I left the DP uncovered. I'm sure the handwritten text will show if I use a black pen! (I didn't want to hide more of the DPs...)